Lead, Supply Chain Data Products & AI Analytics

Xcel Energy, Inc.; Amarillo (TX); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental, Vision, Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Pension

Paid time off (PTO) and Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Xcel Energy, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Supply Chain Data Products and Analytics to lead the analytics portfolio and own the supply chain data layer.

You will build domain analytics on the enterprise data platform, manage the data product catalog, and drive AI-enabled analytics initiatives in governance-bound processes. You will lead a team of 4–5 professionals, deliver executive dashboards, and partner with Enterprise Data to ensure data contracts and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, engineering, information systems, or business discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, or supply chain decision support, including two or more years leading people or cross-functional delivery.
• Demonstrated delivery of analytical products on a modern cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent) with SQL fluency and working knowledge of data modeling.
• Experience supporting enterprise resource planning data environments; SAP (ECC or S/4HANA) data structures strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns the supply chain data product catalog: definition, prioritization, development, versioning, and retirement of governed analytical assets serving Supply Chain functions, Supply Chain leadership, and enterprise finance stakeholders.
• Directs closure of documented domain data engineering gaps in the enterprise lakehouse in partnership with the enterprise data platform organization.
• Establishes data contracts, refresh standards, and quality thresholds for all production data products.
• Serves as the accountable owner for the supply chain analytical data layer and maps every production report and data product to its post-conversion data source before cutover.
• Partners with the Business Integration function on system-of-record design decisions affecting downstream analytics; Business Integration owns system configuration and process design — this role owns the analytical consumption layer.
• Owns and evolves the team's automation and AI-assisted analytics portfolio, progressing from robotic process automation toward governed AI workflows within human-approved control boundaries and applicable enterprise standards.
• Maintains a value ledger attributing realized savings and productivity hours to each deployed capability; no autonomous AI action on financial controls.
• Delivers executive decision support: MSS Leadership Scorecard, Monthly Operating Review analytics, blocked invoice control monitoring against the SOX threshold, and CFO-level financial models.
• Leads, develops, and performance-manages a team of 4–5 professionals; executes the team's skills progression toward analytics engineering, AI engineering, and data product management.

Skills

Analytics leadership

SQL fluency

Data modeling

Cross-functional delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative, engineering, information systems, or business

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

SQL

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Xcel Energy, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Supply Chain Data Products and Analytics to lead the analytics portfolio and own the supply chain data layer.

You will build domain analytics on the enterprise data platform, manage the data product catalog, and drive AI-enabled analytics initiatives in governance-bound processes. You will lead a team of 4–5 professionals, deliver executive dashboards, and partner with Enterprise Data to ensure data contracts and quality standards.